Mistaking her for an intruder, Florida woman shot and killed her 27-year-old daughter

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17. So it seems this news has been shared and discussed...

...to the point of redundancy without unique insight or mention of special circumstances. This was an accident. The shooter's husband is a police detective. It seems that efforts to disarm the general public would not have removed the firearms from this house.

There were 586 fatal firearm accidents (or as the CDC terms it unintentional) in 2014 along with 136,053 other unintentional deaths of which 31,959 were due to "falls". So for every 1 person shot and killed by accident, there are about 55 who accidentally fell and died. One conclusion that could be reached here is that people in general are a lot more careful with guns than they are just using stairs or ladders. People have exactly 2 natural and universal basic fears, a fear of falling and a fear of sudden loud noises. I conclude that there are accidental shooting deaths because the loud noise only occurs after the gun is fired. Why there are so many fatal falls I can only attribute to people being essentially and wontonly careless.

Maybe in the future one measure which may have some effect on this cause of death would be the smart gun with a bio-metric interlock. This could prevent cases where a panicked and untrained person grabs the gun of another and injures a friendly or themselves. IMHO this technology is about 7-10 years away and perhaps the recent EA designating funding will help.